Use any of the following to begin a piece of fiction or non-fiction:

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Today’s exercise is to write a haiku style poem.  If you haven’t done this before follow the format below and you’ll be just fine.  OH, but there’s just one rule - it must be about your views on something that’s happening in the world at the moment!

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Use all of the following words in a piece of fiction or non-fiction.  Word order doesn’t matter, you just have to fit them all in:

1. Astonishing
2. Cherub
3. Dyslexia
4. Generous
5. Lateral
6. Massive
7. Petal
8. Sizzle
9. Unbound
10. Warble

Take a headline from your daily newspaper, or go to one of the websites that cover the news - CNN or BBC for example and use it as the title for a piece of fiction or non-fiction.

Write a piece of fiction or non-fiction that clearly shows that spring is all around you.

Use any of the following to start a piece of fiction or non-fiction:

1. The vegetable garden was neatly planted showing no signs that ………
2. “Are you crazy?  You know I can’t ……”
3. Throughout her entire life she’d done what everyone else had wanted, or what she thought they’d want her to do.  But no more.  Now it was time for her life to begin.  Unfortunately, before it could begin there was just the small matter of what to do about ………

Use the following as the basis of a scene.

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Use all of the following words in a piece of fiction or non-fiction:

1. Ambiguous
2. Delude
3. Friction
4. Handsome
5. Margarita
6. Philosophical
7. Oblivious
8. Rusted
9. Tomato
10. Yearn

Think about the people who are cited as being heroes in today’s culture.  Write a journal entry about who inspires you, and why.

This morning think about the upcoming Olympic Games being held in China and the protests that have been held in several parts of the world because of the failure of China to keep its promises to the Olympic Committee about making improvements on human rights issues.  Write an opinion letter as if to your local newspaper about whether or not you feel a major sporting event such as the Olympics should be shadowed by political issues.